CHAR-KOOSTA
Newspaper of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation
VOLUME 13
NUMBER 25
THE BUTTERCUP MONTH
APRIL 16, 1985]
Budget adjusting may aid law enforcement and road
The budgets of 14 Tribally funded programs were juggled last month in an effort to find almost $113,000 for reprogramming into four other Tribal programs.
The Council voted unanimously March 29 to accept the in-house budget modifications below for probable future use by the Tribal law
The name Char-Koosta is derived from Chief Charlo's and Chief Koostatah's names. They were the Tribes' last traditional chiefs.
enforcement branches, the juvenile probation program, the Flathead Culture Committee, and to open roads.
Before the vote, Joe Dupuis explained that he and Vern Clairmont scrutinized the budgets of all the Tribal programs to locate extra dollars that could be spared without affecting services.
Some of the "found" money came from positions that were planned for FY85 but not filled to date. "We looked for money that probably would have been left over at year's end," too, Clarimont explained. "No department was asked to suffer."
The Natural Resources Dept. was hit for a total of $67,947. Legal-related
opening
departments contributed $38,200.
Hardest hit was the Summer Career Development Program. SCDP, which employs high school seniors and college freshmen in the summer, lost two-thirds of its FY85 allocation of $29,500.
During the discussion about the money readjusting, Arlee's Kevin Howlett said he looked at SCDP as an investment program in that it provided hands-on training for upcoming Tribal employees and leaders.
Poison's Teresa Wall, who was in charge of the program a few years ago, agreed SCDP matches students with jobs on the Reservation that will give them a taste of their chosen career or
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